I have to complain, though, about the numbers of national chains in the voting. I mean, are people really going to vote for Papa John’s over Pizza Paradiso? Or Starbucks over Sparky’s for coffee? Over half the entries in the Women’s Clothing Store category are for chain stores. Is it that there’s a lack of local shops, or that the readers of the post just don’t know about them? Or that the chains are just doing a better job than local stores?

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At least most of the “Neighbourhood Bars” are actually in neighbourhoods, but the “First Date” spots are lame to boring. The tidal basin? Yeah, I want my date to smell the dead fish as we sweat on the concrete shore.